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Vinny Singh


NEWS 10/30/08 7:00pm

NOD arrests, EMS calls decrease

Once notorious for its drunken antics and the numbers of students it sent to the hospital, Wiess College's annual Night of Decadence, which took place Saturday evening, had few incidents this year - even fewer than last year's NOD. Only one patient was transported to the hospital, and Rice Emergency Medical Services responded to 15 emergency calls while on stand-by at NOD, head of REMS Michael Pandya said.


NEWS 9/11/08 7:00pm

ANTH 201 creates controversy

Last week, plans for an anthropology assignment had college presidents and masters in discussions with the professor about students' privacy issues. In the week since, the professor has dropped the requirement for using photo or video records in the observational study.Assistant anthropology professor Elizabeth Vann, who teaches ANTH 201: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, assigned her class a college ethnography project, which requires the students to conduct observational research at a residential college other than their own.